Peanut-heater



(No ModeI.)

T. M. WALKER. PEANUT HEATER No. 597,210. Patented Jan, 11,1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT -rricn.

THOMAS M. ALKER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

PEANUT-HEATER.

SYECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,210, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed November 2, 1896. Serial No. 610,881 (No model.)

To all whom it play concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS M. WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Peanut-Heater, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings as a part hereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a peanut-heater of increased economy in the application of the heat expended, and one which is also economical in construction and convenient to manipulate. The contrivance invented by me for this purpose is as shown in the drawings above referred to, in which- Figure 1 shows a vertical section taken through the center of the heater and a portion of the front walls of the oven of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of the display top and cover for the receiver of my apparatus. Fig. 3 is a plan of the bottom of the oven, showing the lower ainholes and legs with which such oven is provided. Fig. at is a front elevation of the oven, and Fig. 5 a back elevation of the same.

The letters designate the parts described,

'. and referring to the same' A is a circular sheet-iron oven, which may be made of more or less ornamental design and is provided with legs I) b b and a series of air holes '0 c c c in its bottom and a further series of air-holes d at its top. As it takes two pieces of sheet-iron of the usual width to build the oven for my invention, causing a horizontal scam, I cover such seam up with an ornamental copper band e. The oven is provided with a pair of handles ff a small window g in the front thereof, and a vertical sliding door h in its back.

I is a receiver, double bottom (i and double-walled, (L3,) the same being also constructed of sheet-iron and provided with a capped filling-opening j and a steam-escape pipe 70, on the latter of which a whistle 1 may be set to be operated by the escaping steam and so attract attention to the heater, which, displaying peanuts in its display-top M, will thus advertise itself. The top of the receiver I is provided with a projecting flange 2', by which such receiver is suspended in the oven. The display-top M is mounted on the cover M of said receiver I and consistsof a hexagonal frame m of tin, (see Fig. 2,) in which are secured six small panes of glass m and a tubular opening m in the top of. such frame being provided through which to fill the display-top.

When using my heater, the hollow walls and bottom of the receiver are partially filled with water and the same heated by means of an oil-stove N. Any good oil-stove may be used, preferably a double burner. So as not to make the door h too large the oil-stove may be placed in the oven by removing the receiver, and after having been so placed the same may be kept filled and lighted through such door it and watched through the window g to see that it is burning properly. The water in the walls and bottom of the receiver while heating of course circulates freely, and the surplus steam escapes through the pipe 70.

The advantages of keepingpeanuts warm by means of circulating hot water are manifest. When applying heat directly to the receptacle in which the peanuts are contained, the lower strata thereof are apt to become superheated and burned, while the top layer, which is sold off and refilled, is sometimes not sufficiently heated. With my apparatus the conditions are just reversed, the upper layer of peanuts being the warmest and the bottom layers the least warm.

The cover M is double and hollow, the same as the receiver itself, to better retain the heat, andsaid cover is hinged to the pipe is by the short sleeve m at the end of the arm m being inserted over such pipe.

Now what I claim is- In a peanut-heater, the combination with a heating-chamber, of a receptacle for the peanuts, comprising an inner vessel, an outer vessel spaced therefrom to form a steamchamber the'rebetween, and a suitab1yapertured cover closing said steam-chamber, said receptacle being provided with means for supporting it within said heater, a steampipe extending vertically from said cover, a whistle mounted on the end of said pipe, and a display-top constructed to close the receptacle and having an arm apertured to slide vertically on said steam-pipe, whereby said top may be moved vertically and swung hori zontally to uncover said receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 20th day of October, 1896.

, THOMAS M. W'ALKER.

In presence ofv ALEX. WAGNER, T. J. GEISLER. 

